Do you love rhythm? Have you ever wanted to understand or learn how to play drums or rhythms from other cultures? John's series of workshops offers a rare opportunity to gain proficiency in worldwide hand drum techniques.These sessions explore rhythm, pulse, and improvisational exercises, and work towards developing confidence, dexterity and independence in traditional rhythms from the Arabic nations, West and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, North and South India and the
traditional Western world. Participants learn to apply exciting poly-rhythmic patterns to a variety of instruments including frame drums, Egyptian tambourines and dumbeks, congas, djembes, drum kit, tabla, and tuned percussion. A workshop for the total rhythmic novice, as well as the trained percussionist, stress will be placed on the transformation of technique into joyful rhythmic collaboration in a safe and non-competitive atmosphere.